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Author: Old Geezer
Date: 2007-12-01 15:47
This is an interesting take on orchestral musicans...particularly woodwinds and clarinetists!
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/pahre/www/music.html
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2007-12-01 16:15
cigleris wrote:
> Have to say that some of that is quite silly.
"Some" of it?
Your point? 
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2007-12-01 17:10
Mark, i don't have a point because I see some of my collegues in that text. Infact the author has descibed all the traits of my fellow wind players in the New Professionals. I wouldn't want to offend anyone. To the author in the words of the great Graham Chapman, "Stop that it's silly!". ![[grin]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie5.gif)
Peter Cigleris
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2007-12-01 19:17
I found it hilarious.
Especially when I think that our oboist indeed wears rather tight clothes. ;-)
We all deserve some good-humoured bashing from time to time.
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Ben
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2007-12-02 12:13
Tictactux i completely agree. I always laugh at myself. Just a few weeks ago when the orchestra was on the lunch break a few of us went to the pub across the road for for a pub lunch. I went to sit down next to the principle flute on this sofa come bed thing and the wooded slats gave way. I was in fits of laughter as were the other members of the orchestra. Thinking about it now has got me chuckling to myself.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: crazy karlos
Date: 2007-12-03 11:29
My favourite stereotypical orchestra joke.
Everyone knows that there's one step below being a bitter and twisted second violinist, and that's being a bitter and twisted viola player.
So, a viola player in the orchestra arrives at his house one day to find a smoking ruin, with the fire brigade and the police in attendance.
The police chief takes him aside and tells him: "I'm terribly sorry to tell you this, and we don't know exactly what happened, but it seems the conductor of your orchestra came to your house, brutally murdered your wife and all your children, slaughtered all of your pets, smashed everything in sight, and then set fire to the whole place."
The viola player's eyes are wide and bright, his hands are shaking.
"You said .... the conductor .... came to my house?"
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2007-12-03 13:11
Since both Keith Stein and Wm Stubbins used "Clarinetistry" in their book titles, I should think that their word-meaning might suffice. Comments ? Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Old Geezer
Date: 2007-12-03 15:36
I've read K. Stein's "The Art of Clarinet Playing." I didn't know he wrote something with the word Clarinetistry in the title. At one point in the text Stein suggests rowing a boat is a good way to build up breath control for playing the clarinet! Interesting....
I'm quite familiar (to my dismay ) with Stubbin's "Clarinetistry" too. It's perhaps the worst example of pretentious pedantry in print! It must have been a student dissertation or something...it is really awful!
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